Case Profile Of John Wayne Gacy

The infamous “Green River Killer” otherwise known as Gary Ridgway was one of the more interesting cases that I had come across while researching criminals to choose as a topic, mainly because there was so much media coverage regarding this case. Gary was convicted of killing at least forty eight plus people, and had confessed to killing more than seventy people; I can only really wonder what could cause him to commit such atrocious crimes, which is what led me to choosing him as my topic of interest for this paper. I will be covering everything from his early life all the way to where he is now and everything in-between, all leading up to my theories on how he became infamously known as “The Green River Killer.”

When John Wayne Gacy was younger he grew up with a father, a loving mother, and two caring sisters. “John Gacy faced an abusive childhood and conflict over his sexuality,” states the Editors of Biography.com. His abusive father is part of the reason he started his killings in his later years. He was scared and felt like he was competing for love. Gacy and his siblings grew up with a drunken father who would beat the children with a razor strap if they were perceived to have misbehaved; the man physically

When you first think of a serial killer or you think of a psychopath you realize that they both have something in common even though they have different words to describe similar characteristics of a “monster”. John Wayne Gacy had an abusive childhood and struggled with his sexuality at a very young age, which these factors helped him become the person he did.

According to the literature and social learning theory, the family is an important institution that can be used to explain John Wayne Gacy’s criminality. Statistics stated that witnessing violence and being the subject of physical abuse were strongly correlated with psychological, emotional and behavioural problems. Additionally, criminality and aggression were two well researched long term affects of exposure to violence. John Wayne Gacy witnessed and was the subject of physical abuse by his father and I believe that these events lead to his serial killing criminality.

Convicted rapist Phillip Craig Garrido was born in California on April 5, 1951. Phillip Kidnap 11 year old Jaycee Dugard on June 10, 1991, outside of her home in South Lake Tahoe in California. He kept her captive for 18 years, would constantly rape her. During these years, Garrido raped dugard repeatedly, fed her countless lies and impregnated her twice, Jaycee had two daughters with Garrido, giving birth to them at the ages of 14 and 17.

Each year defendants claim to be mentally insane so they may receive medical treatment for their illness instead of serving jail or prison time. It is my belief that all mentally ill citizens should have the right to be medically treated. Although, not all of these people should be allowed back into society after they have reached their sanity. Some extreme cases such as the case of John Wayne Gacy who was proven insane should still never be let back onto the public streets. John Wayne Gacy murdered and raped 33 young men from the Chicago area then plead and Gacy was found insane. Thankfully Gacy’s insanity was ignored and he was sentenced to death. Some cases of insanity should be sentenced properly with treatment after being proven insane by a psychiatric team, but extreme cases should still be treated the same as any sane person.

At the age of nine, John recalls being sexually molested on several occasion by a friend of his father; however he never disclosed this information until reaching adulthood. Signs of homosexuality appeared throughout John Wayne Gacy’s childhood, including the incidence of him being caught with his mother underwear, and continued throughout his adulthood, until finally disclosing his preference for men to his second wife, Carole. Upon his first arrest on charges of sodomy, John received a psychiatric evaluation which concluded that he, in fact, suffered from antisocial personality disorder. Subsequently, after sentenced to death for 12 of 33 known murders, Gacy received a secondary psychiatric evaluation which determined that John was a paranoid schizophrenic with multiple personality disorder. In conclusion, the psychological, biological and genetic factors of John Wayne Gacy are quite alarming. His ability to charm and manipulate many of those around him and his lack of remorse or the slightest bit of guilt for the gruesome crimes he committed, even in his last moments of life, made John Wayne Gacy one of the most dangerous sociopaths of our time (Haggerty,

After finding out about the crimes Gacy had done, he quickly obtained a search warrant for Gacy’s home on December 13, 1978. While searching his house item’s were found, such as a box containing two drivers licenses and several rings, one specifically with a high school name engraved on it. Other items that were found were hypodermic needles in brown bottles, marijuana, pills, along with a stained rug, handcuffs, rope, sexual devices, clothes that were too small for Gacy, and a number of books with homosexual and child pornography themes. Besides the items they found in his house, the police confiscated three automobiles, which in one of them had pieces of hair that were later matched to be Robert

The killer clown most know as John Wayne Gacy, was a convicted American serial killer who murdered and sexually assaulted 33 teenage and young men's. John Wayne was born on March 17 of 1942 in Chicago Illinois, he was the second son of three of John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. John had polish and danish heritage since his paternal grandparents were from Poland but immigrated to the Unites States. As a young boy, he was really close to his two sisters and mother but unfortunately he had a hard relationship with his father because he was an alcoholic who physically abuse John's mother and sisters.

Jeffrey Dahmer killed and committed acts of necrophilia on 17 males between 1978 and 1991. In the article “Jeffrey Dahmer Biography”, it states that “Dahmer initially pleaded not guilty to all charges, despite having confessed to the killings during police interrogation, but he eventually changed his plea to guilty by virtue of insanity” (Biography.com). His defense then described all the gorey details of his behavior and murders, trying to prove that only someone who had psychopathic tendencies could commit such horrendous acts, but the jury decided to believe the prosecution's statement that Dahmer was fully aware that his acts were evil and chose to commit them anyway. The trial was so complicated that “on February 15, 1992, they returned after approximately 10 hours' deliberation to find him guilty, but sane, on all counts” (Biography.com). He was then sentenced to 15 life sentences in prison, which were going to be run consecutively, with a 16th term added on in May. Another well known serial killer was John Wayne Gacy. Gacy would dress up as “Pogo the Clown” and perform for children’s birthday parties, but no one knew that he would eventually murder and rape 33 boys. He would then hide the bodies in a crawl space in his house and kept them there for years until he was caught. The article states that “the discovery of his murders and subsequent arrest shook the community as he

Gacy as a sadistic rapist. This type of sex offender can torture their victim, get excited over causing them pain and humiliation, are exceptionally abusive, and dangerous. They will most likely mutilate and kill their victims when they are finished raping them. Mr. Gacy falls into the subtype of pervasively angry since he has a history of antisocial behavior, low social confidence, driven by anger, and use excessive force which will result in physical harm to their victims (CSOM, 2016). Mr. Gacy did not have a good relationship with his father and had trouble making friends. After raping his young victims, Mr. Gacy would mutilate and kill them (Bio.com Editors, 2015). He also falls slightly into the category of approach–explicit (CSOM, 2016) because he did plan to carry out the crime with premeditation, did not want to get caught, but he did not groom his victims (Bio.com Editors,

On Friday, December 22, 1978, Gacy finally confessed to police that he killed at least thirty people and buried most of the remains of the victims beneath the crawl space of his house. According to the book Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Sullivan and Maiken, Gacy said that, "his first killing took place in January, 1972, and the second in January, 1974, about a year and a half after his marriage." He further confessed that he would lure his victims into being handcuffed and then he would sexually assault them. To muffle the screams of his victims, he would stuff a sock or underwear into their mouths and kill them by pulling a rope or board against their throats, as he raped them. Gacy admitted to sometimes keeping the dead bodies under his bed or in the attic for several hours before eventually burying them in the crawl space.

Serial killers traumatize entire communities and cause tremendous disturbance to everyone. The Gilgo Beach serial killer is also known as the Long Island serial killer and Craigslist Ripper is said to have been responsible for 10 to 17 murders. The killer is said to target those who work in the sex industry and is believed to have been active for more than 20 years. Although the killer has been active more than 20 years the police are nit anywhere near to catching him. This essay will take a look at the investigation of the serial killer, take a look at who some of the victims were and finally give my opinion on how the case is being handled. It is important to note that the identity of the killer has not been identified therefore there has not been a trial and a sentencing. Also for the purpose of this essay I will be referring to the Unsub as The Gilgo Beach serial killer or simply as the killer.

Jeffery was a sex offender & a rapist. Gary Ridgway , 67 was American serial killer although Gary Ridgway killed 49 women he did not consume his victims like Jeffrey Dahmer did. Both males Jeffrey Dahmer and Gary Ridgway were Cold blooded killers , they killed human beings with no remorse for the crimes they had committed.

Serial killers have fascinated the imaginations of people for a long time. One of the most notorious serial killers is Jeffrey Dahmer whose gruesome murders shocked the nation. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer also known as Milwaukee monster was a notorious American serial killer and sexual offender in the 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1978 and 1991 Dahmer had murdered 17 men. His victims were usually raped, tortured, dismembered, and cannibalism was also involved. Jeffrey was a troubled child psychologically and his social skills had a lot to be desired. All the way through his childhood he was ignored and had queer fantasies of cadavers. In his adulthood this psychosocial status quo didn 't change and was in fact aggravated.